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>[07.Oct.09] Patents – South American PTOs to launch cooperation plan
Source: INPI/BR [Adapted]

The users of the industrial property systems of nine south-American countries, including Brazil, will have the search for protection of their creations facilitated. Gathered on 3-4.Sep.2009, in Montevideo, Uruguay, representatives from Patent and Trademarks Offices (PTOs) of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Suriname evaluated the operational and budgetary plan for the creation of an information portal that will enable integration between the offices and a common database of trademarks and patents. The project will receive 750 thousand dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank, who should approve the proposal still in October.

The coordination of this “Cooperation System regarding Operational Information and Industrial Property” will be assigned to the National Research and Innovation Agency of Uruguay. On the first phase, which should be concluded on 2011, the system is based on the continuous construction of a information system platform of common use by the countries that wish to do so. On the second phase that will begin in 2012 the cooperation on the search and examination fields should evolve. One PTO may be assigned to the examination of a specific technological area, according to the experience and specialty of its examiners.

The agreement, which may be expanded with the adhesion of other Latin-American countries, has been approved by the heads of the nine south-American PTOs abovementioned, by observers of the Mexican PTO and heads of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).